Well, here’s a fun turn of events. After years of seeing your favorite board games work their way onto your gaming consoles, USAopoly and Blizzard Entertainment are teaming to bring your video games onto your dining room table. Monopoly: World of Warcraft and Risk: StarCraft will “… combine tried-and-true foundations with new designs and gameplay elements inspired by Blizzard’s popular gaming universes.”

2012 Toy Fair is going on in New York City this week, and ThinkGeek is using the event to unveil the iCADE 8-Bitty wireless game controller for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The iCADE 8-Bitty “… will bring the magic of the iCADE to the pockets of smartphone and tablet users by delivering an enhanced gaming experience everyone can enjoy.”

Valentine’s Day—that most polarizing of holidays—is a week away. And whether you have anyone with whom to share it, there are plenty of app developers who want to share it with you. We’ve got iOS apps to help you find a date, cook for that date, send cards to that date and “bump bears” with that date. There are also some Valentine’s themed accessories and sales to take advantage of, so check it out now before the holiday passes you by.

Atari has developed this habit of getting us into free versions of their games, then suddenly adding that “+” so we’ll pay to get more. Which we do. We did it with Breakout Boost+, and now we’ll be doing it with Asteroids: Gunner for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Available for $4.99, Asteroids: Gunner+ provides gamers with access to eight ships and three galaxies full of enemies to blast and Crystals to collect.

Ah, March, when people who otherwise have no interest in college hoops suddenly become fans because 1.) it gives them an excuse to blow off work that most bosses understand, and 2.) it allows them to follow a bracket tournament. And who doesn’t love a good bracket tournament? Well, many, I’d expect, but PocketBracket 2012 isn’t for them. It’s for all of you who know where Villanova is.

Consider it a tough day when you sneeze so hard that your very soul is hurled out of your body. Consider it even tougher when you learn the only way to get it back is to scare the various citizens of Monster Town. Sound like a fun game concept? It is, but that’s not this game. That’s Gabrielle’s Ghostly Groove for Nintendo 3DS. This is Gabrielle’s Monster Match for iOS, a match-style game that manages to retain the charm of its predecessor despite its more basic gameplay.

Feral Interactive is once again letting it be known that when Mac gamers fight, there are no skirmishes or police actions. For us, it’s war—Total War—as evidenced by the announced that The Creative Assembly and Sega’s Empire: Total War Gold Edition will be launched for the Mac this spring.

If all your significant other wants for a Valentine’s Day movie is romance, you can get that in pretty much any kind of movie. So, when you hear the words “Let’s watch something romantic tonight,” you can steer clear of anything with Renee Zellweger or Reese Witherspoon in it and instead take these suggestions from the hopeless romantics here at Appletell. All the movies recommended are available for rental at purchase from iTunes.

It’s now been nearly two weeks since the Macworld | iWorld 2012 kicked off in San Francisco, and the shift from the Mac to Apple’s iDevices appears to have been a success. Truth be known, the show was headed that way before IDG embraced it with the name change, as evidenced by the growing number of iPhone case developers occupying booths on the show floor. This year was no exception, as there were numerous companies with snazzy new cases to show off. So, what do you say? Shall we take a look, then?

Interested in using your iPad 2 as a secondary monitor or touchscreen computer? There are various apps that let you do that, and now there’s some hardware, too. Twelve South has unveiled HoverBar, an adjustable arm that floats an iPad 2 next to an iMac or Apple display. The HoverBar can also be used separately to create a compact iPad workstation or an install-free kitchen mount for iPad.